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We’re here at the Racing Appeals Panel this morning for Noel Callow’s appeal against his 10 month disqualification on two charges of conduct detrimental to the interests of racing related to the incidents in Darwin last year that were recorded on video and later surfaced on social media, after it is rumored former jockey Group […]
Callow’s barrister Stirling kicks off by saying that there is no argument that racism is wrong and totally unacceptable, and that his client acknowledges and accepts this. His client accepts that he behaved foolishly, offensively and in a racist and gratuitous manner toward people he did not know on the street. Stirling says that Callow’s […]
The Panel plays the offending video recordings. There is much argument about whether the transcript of the recordings is correct, with Stirling disputing that his client ever called anyone the highly offensive term “nigger’ and the recording clearly appearing to back him up. Stirling submits that Callow’s conduct was spur of the moment stupidity, not […]
Noel ‘King’ Callow’s appeal against his ten month disqualification for conduct related offences related to the “Darwin Tapes” recordings that went viral on social media will be heard next Friday at9.30am. We spoke to the King in the aftermath of the recordings coming to public attention and can confirm that Callow accepted full responsibility for […]
The two trackwork riders who submitted doctored health assessment reports in 3 different years have lost their appeal against their nine month disqualifications. Lane Sharrock and Jeff McKay were separately charged with engaging in any dishonest, corrupt, fraudulent, improper or dishonourable action or practice in connection with racing; with McKay also being charged Neither man […]
To suggest that he was a person affected by rules which were implemented to govern an industry in which he was prohibited from participating, defies common sense – NSW Racing Appeals Panel decision in Ben Sarina v Harness Racing NSW Now as we have written a million times and have plastered all over this website […]
Ben Sarina has won his appeal to the NSW Racing Appeals Tribunal against the decision to warn him off for life for assaulting a former harness racing Steward, in a decision that has an immediate and wide ranging impact on the powers of HRNSW and its Stewards to supervise or control the activities of disqualified […]
The appeal of harness trainer Aaron Goadsby against the decision of the NSW Harness Racing Appeals Panel to disqualify him for 5 years for failing to produce telephones registered in the names of his non-racing related businesses will be heard at 10.30am this morning in the NSW Supreme Court, and is sure to be of […]
Ben Yole with his lawyer Damian Sheales – No-one ever said they were supermodels In a move likely to send shockwaves through the harness racing industry, Tasracing has revoked the conditions it placed on trainer Wayne Yole’s license on the eve of the hearing of his appeal. The unprecedented license conditions – which would have […]
Champion greyhound trainer Ron Ball has today won his appeal against the Stewards decision to restart his 10-year-disqualification imposed during the live baiting scandal of the mid-2010’s. QRIC Stewards had previously determined that Ball had breached the terms of his DQ by attending the property of his partner and then licensed trainer Serena Lawrence in […]
